I switched to a Super Hub after using a Buffalo Air Station for years. If anything the wifi reach is worse and it seems to drop the connection from time to time on my laptop. It asks for the password but will not reconnect. I have to 'turn it on and turn it off again' every so often to make it work. Ethernet is fine...
On 4 Nov 2012, at 19:11, Toby Leighton wrote: > General consensus is that they are a bit flaky, but then virginmedia push > updates out to them automatically to fix things. Since you have an existing > Apple setup, if you are happy with how its all performing what I'd do is set > the virgin hub into "bridge mode" and connect that by ethernet to the wan > connection on the apple airport that looks like a flower. > > This is probably similar to how your current virgin modem is working, and it > essentially leaves your network alone and puts the super-hub into dumb modem > mode. this way you wont need to go around re-joining all of your devices to > the new wireless networks and re-doing any port forwarding rules you may have. > > I don't have much hands on experience of recent virginmedia kit, but one > thing I do know about apple time capsule and airport extreme boxes, is that > they work best when they are in charge of the network. > > On 4 November 2012 19:04, Ray Packham <[email protected]> wrote: > HI all > I have been upgraded to 60meg on my virgin landline, now they are going to > give me a Virgin super doooper virgin hub. Ive read mixed reviews about this > Netgear bit of kit, and as Ive an apple router at the moment that has never > given me trouble I'm a bit dubious about it. I wondered if anybody else was > using Virgin's super hub thingy and what experiences they have of it? > > > Ray > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
